Posted on 11/30/2019 8:27:55 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Fresh from his involvement in a $3 billion Malaysian corruption scandal, leftist actor Leo DiCaprio is now finding himself in yet another international controversy, this time in Brazil:
According to the Hollywood Reporter:
Without offering proof, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday said actor Leonardo DiCaprio had funded nonprofit groups that he claimed are partly responsible for fires in the Amazon this year.
Bolsonaro's remarks about the American actor were part of a wider government campaign against environmental nonprofit groups operating in Brazil.
"DiCaprio is a cool guy, isn't he? Giving money to set the Amazon on fire," the president said to supporters in Brasilia.
DiCaprio's environmental organization Earth Alliance has pledged $5 million to help protect the Amazon after a surge in fires destroyed large parts of the rainforest in July and August. But the actor and committed environmentalist said in a statement sent to The Associated Press Friday his group had not funded any of the two nonprofits named by investigators so far.
"While worthy of support, we did not fund the organizations targeted," the statement read. "The future of these irreplaceable ecosystems is at stake and I am proud to stand with the groups protecting them."
Some members of Bolsonaro's administration argue that civil society groups and environmental laws hinder economic development in the region.
Based on all of the reports I've read about this, it doesn't look like DiCaprio had anything directly to do with a recent incident involving some Brazilian volunteer firefighters who reportedly started a rainforest fire and then took pictures of it in order to sell them to the World Wildlife Fund, which is always running panda balloon photos over the Brazilian rainforest, like they own it, much to the irritation of Brazilians.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Mr. Bolsonaro’s remarks came after four members of the nongovernmental organization Alter do Chão Fire Brigade were arrested on Tuesday and accused by the police of setting fires in order to document them and drum up more donations.
They were released on Thursday on a judge’s order.
Politicians and nongovernmental organizations had fiercely criticized the arrests, saying they were part of a concerted attempt by Mr. Bolsonaro’s government to harass environmental groups.
...and...
The president said the World Wildlife Fund had paid the volunteer firefighting organization to take pictures of forest fires in the Amazon.
“So what did the N.G.O. do? What is the easiest thing? Set fire to the forest. Take pictures, make a video,” the president said, adding that the fund “makes a campaign against Brazil, it contacts Leonardo DiCaprio, he donates $500,000.”
“A part of that went to the people that were setting fires,” Mr. Bolsonaro said. “Leonardo DiCaprio, you are contributing to the fire in the Amazon; that won’t do.”
LOL! When the Left starts off with that phrase, you know the SOB is guilty as sin...
I know Steve Bannon was/is working from an ‘international’ angle to expose totalitarian do gooders/ one worlder commies. I wonder if he is part of this.
” setting fires in order to document them and drum up more donations.”
Sadly, I find this all too believable. The proof, of course, will needs be hard evidence offered in an open court.
Heh, I could easily make a case for airhead actors (the vast majority) causing lots of problems.
However, since most of us consider their intellect to be just above that a slime mold, realism forces us to admit that few, if any, give a shi...er...give an Obama about what oozes out of their mouths.
"so far"
Was Leo trying to smuggle out a BIG diamond?
Whatever it takes to keep him from making another movie.
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